Word: mausers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...students were on duty across from the small, grey Ruskin-Gothic Peruvian Embassy. They knew that it was giving asylum to ex-Mayor Juan Luis Gutierrez Granier, in whose municipality, it was said, students were tortured and killed last week. A swell-looking kid of 19 had an old Mauser rifle with a sling made of heavy twine. He had on two overcoats and a north woods peaked wool cap. How long was he going to stand there? Until Gutierrez came out. He thought there would be a try that night. It was cold as hell, but even the rifleman...
Going straight did not appeal to some of the henchmen. They renounced the blood brotherhood pledge and left the gang in discontent. Last week pasty-faced Tomiji Nodera, who, though an accountant, could not stomach the new business ethics, visited the boss, pulled a German Mauser pistol and fired three times. Matsuda slumped dead in his chair...
...three days, Siam's police were "very ashamed that no arrests had been made" but "most confident the robbers will be caught." Siam's King was not so sure. While the search went on, somebody had crept into the royal bedchamber and copped his favorite 7.65-mm. Mauser pistol...
...Colts & Mausers. Intervention or not, buoyant José Tamborini, full of vigor and confidence, took to the country at week's end. He was off for Argentina's far west and the Province of San Juan, where Perón supporters had split. Because their previous campaign train had been stoned and shot at, the Tamborini crowd now took pains to pack Colt .45s and palm-sized Mauser .25s (the boudoir special...
...fall back on two devious, difficult routes from Siberia, across the long reaches of Mongolia and Sinkiang. Truck roads, now built and usable, touch Russia's trans-Siberian railway system at two points. Over these lines recently China has received some of Russia's captured German booty-Mauser rifles, machine guns, antitank and anti-aircraft guns. But Joseph Stalin's own interior war traffic jams his railways, and his outward routes to the United Nations are none too sufficient and secure...